it’s a pleasure to introduce a new mix-blend selection of mostly beatless music AKA Ambient, fished out from Bandcamp, this sounds are soundtrack like, mellow, spaced and paced by design. A step to the left and back from the recent bass heavy booming breakbeats that might send the neighbours into a tizzy if played too loud, too late, too often. These are chill out and kick back atmospheres, a varied palette of moods and evocative incentives for your ears to pick up on.

This mix got me to thinking so I’ll share some thoughts about heat, and the term hot-house, Sauna and Greenhouse. Just riffin’, Saunas for human beings, Greenhouses generally for plants, (humans are a bit like plants), then there’s the Greenhouse Effect…a bit like a Sauna effect but for the earth’s atmosphere, and the delicate climate balance, earth’s thermostat control system. Complex.

One distinguishing feature shared by Saunas and Greenhouses, I guess, is that they’re usually under human control, the trained expert who know the limitations, sweet spots and comfort zones. The Global ‘Greenhouse’ effect has no such all powerful thermostat dial, to be controlled by man. So music for saunas is music for the heating up of the planet and cooling off of human beings, to chill out may also mean to warm up in a Sauna, or if you’re a plant, in a greenhouse, a controlled environment.

The sharp contrast and flip between hot and cold seems like a powerful force across scale, materials and technology. Geology, thermodynamics and data hardware depend upon stable temperature parameters. Like wearing six hoodies and thermal underpants in a sauna, or swimming with no wet suit in the North Sea after eating ten choc’ ice’s, these sharp contrasts are testing human capacity to adequately house and feed everyone. I conclude, burn less fossil fuels, utilise the natural abundance of untapped energy in wind, water, solar and novel natural carbon capture technologies. I’m drifting… 

Perhaps, i muse, the exercise of imagining contrary environments of the tepid to warm to glowing to hot to boiling to freezing to cold to chilled to breezy and around. Melting and freezing, melting and freezing. Perhaps Dali’s melting clocks, captured and frozen in time, via painting, or memories of times on the beach, or in a sunny warm summer meadow, blended with memories of building snowmen or making snowballs or crunch through snow as you walked. The smell of summer perfumes and aromas both rural and urban, and the ozone of ice, coldness and damp. I dunno, just riffin’ here.

Enjoy the music.

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